So far that little stand has sold approximately 120 plants!!! It's done so well that I am going to go get more from Pinelands Nursery before our upcoming market this Saturday. Like... damn, has hyping native plants in this neighborhood over the last 2 years actually had its intended effect?!

If schools have money for AI, I'd rather they use that to pay teachers more

wanna know one of the dirty little secrets of how to make a cool science fiction set? this bad boy right here, the NFS 4 Freezer Spacer. this fucker shows up EVERYWHERE in scifi set design ceilings? check! floors? check! walls? check! tables? check! instant scifi vibe

1. ICE has not paid for detainee medical care for 7 MONTHS The termination of payments to providers has coincided with a MASSIVE SPIKE in detainee deaths. This is a health crisis and a moral crisis. Follow along for details. 🧵

The parade of whistles might have been my favorite part of the Mayday parade in Minneapolis today. Very powerful and moving.

@mrrg.bsky.social This makes me think of your Sogdian project bsky.app/profile/lipi... (or Bride’s Tale)

There have been more mass shooters over the last 40 years than there have been non-citizens who have voted.

If you're protesting SCOTUS gutting the VRA this weekend: I INVOKE MY RIGHTS TO SILENCE AND COUNSEL AND WON'T ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS WITHOUT MY ATTORNEY PRESENT is the ONLY thing you should say to law enforcement besides identifying yourself in a stop and ID state and asking if you're free to leave.

Republican New Hampshire Senate candidate John Sununu says he supports a work requirement for seniors on Medicare: "I certainly support a work requirement for able-bodied Medicare recipients."

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This is truly mind-blowing: Norway has gone from near-zero sales of non‑emitting battery electric vehicles to now close to 100% of all new passenger car sales - achieved in about 13 years. More in my next substack newsletter. Sign up here: substack.com/@janrosenow

I liked this too, I wonder if we have the same minor complaint about the second part of the game.

ooh @briannalei.bsky.social who made the wonderful butterfly soup has a new game on Kickstarter and it looks completely gorgeous www.kickstarter.com/projects/psy...

by my tally we are now spending ~$2B to companies to NOT build more energy infrastructure. in the middle of an energy crisis

In Seattle's Pike Place Market, vendors claimed that removing cars would cripple them. Nope. Sales actually rose. Remember: Studies show that biz owners consistently exaggerate how many customers drive and undercount those who walk, bike, or ride transit. Info: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

the voters, in fact, did have a say in the gerrymandering in Florida: they voted for a Fair Districts amendment that would prohibit exactly this kind of map the Florida Supreme Court, however, has determined that this is irrelevant and the will of the voters should be explicitly ignored

Literally we spent the last six months being told private donors were paying for this thing

Learned from my 101-year-old grandfather that one problem of being a centenarian is that airlines apparently only have a 2-digit age variable, meaning that every time he shows up at the airport, the data in the system at the check-in counter thinks he's a 1-year-old unaccompanied child.

Fun fact: Florida's orange harvest is now only 8% of what it was 20 years of global warming ago. Increasing hurricane activity and more hospitable environment for disease and pests, has *already* destroyed the Florida orange industry. citrusindustry.net/2024/05/07/f...

Some suggestions for notebooks in pocket format that are NOT Moleskine. It's a thread 🧵 ⬇️

Trump and Elon Musk destroyed most of the global H.I.V. program that saved hundreds of thousands of lives in Zambia. Now the US is threatening to cut remaining support, unless Zambia gives access to the country’s mineral resources. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...

New from me: All 40 of Trump's judicial nominees who have taken Qs from the Senate Judiciary Committee have refused to say Trump lost the 2020 election. Now his high-level executive nominees are dodging the Q, too. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Atlantic writer sued by Kash Patel says she’s been ‘inundated’ with new sources corroborating her reporting

How it started / how it’s going — Jay Bhattacharya edition. 2025: “We will never use this agency to censor scientists who disagree" 2026 : Bhattacharya “has canceled the publication of a study that found that the Covid vaccine sharply cut the odds of hospitalizations and emergency visits”.

We now have people tampering with automated temperature sensors to win Polymarket bets These gambling markets should be regulated into nonexistence finance.yahoo.com/markets/cryp...

one of the problems with the pre-trump immigration system was that when you tried to explain to people how complicated and byzantine the process for coming here legally was, they simply would not believe you trump has "fixed" this by simply making it impossible to come here legally

Every time this tailor posts a photo of their workspace, it looks like their dog is a tailor and he's showing off the garments he made. IG z.o.e.y.a.t.e.s

It's wild how "they're gonna let treatable people die to cut costs" was an argument against universal healthcare and now we have *no* universal healthcare *plus* the "death panels" they fearmongered about

Tesla saved $400 million on its federal taxes by shifting billions of its U.S. profits to countries with lower tax rates. Yes: While you paid your taxes in full, giant corporations maneuvered to pay as little as possible — and it’s all perfectly legal for them. The system is rigged.

Pennsylvania's auditor general, a Republican, audited 210,000+ new voter registrations under Gov. Shapiro's new motor voter system to see if noncitizens were registering to vote. They found one. One. And that was because a PennDOT staffer erred. It was fixed before the driver left the office.

TFW you look out the window and see the Earth disappear 🎥 Astronaut Reid Wiseman 📍 Artemis II from the far side of the Moon

You can also tell that this is all just words to cover over gutter racism and not about cultural practice at all, because if the question was productive culture, they'd be praising the Springfield Haitians as a beautiful example of assimilation and adaption, not partnered with ICE to destroy them.

Vaccines are humanity’s greatest scientific achievement.

Not once in the 80s, 90s or 00s do I recall a politician urging the public to embrace email, mobile phones, texting, two factor authentication, online banking, air fryers, or to replace all their cassette collection with a CD collection. So forgive me if I smell a rat.

This would have been a multi-day story in the olden days pre 2015. lol... like George H W Bush being amazed at a supermarket scanner in the early 90s.

not many people know this, but Barilla has a line of 3D printed pasta it sells mostly to the fine dining industry. I don't want the pasta. I want the pasta printer

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I don't think it's a "problem" that there are fewer teen pregnancies. I think fewer teen pregnancies is a good thing, actually,

I knew it was bad but really didn’t appreciate it was quite this bad as.ft.com/r/db911dd6-f...

"Mr. Hegseth has also boasted about his efforts to scale back what he has called 'stupid rules of engagement.' Oona Hathaway, a professor of international law at Yale Law School, said those rules 'were developed precisely to prevent this kind of civilian harm'. . ." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

Brutal.

You can write a nice longer resolution with articles of impeachment laying out the case in detail; I've done it before and seen it introduced. But it is not a procedural necessity. The House can vote on a literally one-sentence impeachment resolution if it wants, that's perfectly valid.

(if ever there were a time to share my data with your member of congress, now would be that time)

A reliable metric for a losing war: notice how often a combatant describes inputs (ordinance dropped, resources committed, duration of operation) as a substitute for outputs (effects a military operation is intending to produce).

every time i write about wage theft i do a double take because it's so crazy corporations steal more than $50 bn from workers' paychecks each year, illegally paying workers less than they earned for their labor that significantly exceeds the combined losses from larceny, burglary, & vehicle theft

The news needs to stop mincing words about what Hegseth is doing: restoring racial segregation to the US military by preventing anyone but white men from advancing

hmm